Shooting sunsets

I doubt it very much.

Some sunsets don't have a whole bunch of color.

Heres one from just 1/2 hour ago here off the beach

And not only that, the sunset was actually 10 degrees north of me - this was just reflections.

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I can't see how this picture is relevant to the OP's question about photographing people in front of a sunset. (By the way, Walt, you might want to straighten the horizon in the picture).

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8334846
I can't see how this picture is relevant to the OP's question about photographing people in front of a sunset. (By the way, Walt, you might want to straighten the horizon in the picture).

I'm sorry Roy, my point, in case you missed it, was that sometimes people come out vary dark - and in my opinion it took nothing away from my picture.

Thats exactly what the OP was asking about. It has a sunset and has people in the foreground.

Not sure what your problem is.

No problem - it's just that I don't think that it's what the OP was asking about (I'm guessing). Your person (people) are merely silhouettes in this picture (and I wouldn't say that they are exactly in the foreground), but I think the OP was after portraits with the sunset in the background. If this is the case, as I mentioned earlier, the only alternative is to use fill-in flash.

True enough. The OP had posts 1 and 3 - 1 talking about sunsets without white or blown out and 3 about people at the beach with the sky as a backdrop. When I read those 2 posts I didn't think portrait - I thought it referred to landscape/sunset with people.

Either way, I think theres good insight in this thread.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8261379
It's not easy to bracket exposures with people - and and ND would light up the whole of the foreground, not just the person/people, which is what the OP wants. The flash doesn't have to light up the whole of the foreground - just the subject.

You can merge the people from one exposure into another using masks.

+1 with Roy
Flash fill and Rear curtain sync, 2nd curtain sync, or Rear flash sync.